Film of interview with Billy Draper, 8 of 11

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Oral history of Billy Draper

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Billy Draper (aged 101), of Haslinton, interviewed September 1996 by Grant Smith, recorded on VHS video. Draper was a private in 19th Company RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps), a unit known as “The Whalley Pals”.
9.46 mins duration, chapter 8 of 11: Billy Draper recalls: Luvee Farm near Paschendaele / a sniper in trees firing at him, hearing bullets / Menin Gate memorial and “The Last Post”, his younger brother’s memorial at the Menin Gate / Whalley, A, B, C wards through the alphabet except, P and L wards (joke).
From 06.24 mins the film is of photographs of memorabilia of the Whalley Pals, with a Red Cross badge on their arms, in front of hospital huts / The S.J.A.B. Volunteers for the R.A.M.C. at Whalley Mar 18 1915, patients (in hospital blue uniforms) and orderlies in a ward with nurses; Queen Mary’s Military Hospital, Whalley - main entrance, administration block; bandsmen in front of bell tents.